75 Gallon Pictures & Build Thread

Howdy folks... does anyone have an idea of what this creature could be? I spotted it today for the second time in a couple weeks.

It's about 1 - 1.5 inches long and very thin... perhaps 1-2mm round... it looks like a miniature version of a black/white banded sea snake.... I saw it slide around on a rock and it looked as if it was eating the hair algae?? Then it slid back into a hole... very interesting to watch but only for 45 seconds or so.

As for the tank... it is progressing well... I'm doing water changes as well as manually taking the hair algae out and it seems to be working well... some rock is turning purple now.

I found 1 aiptasia I will have to deal with as well as another coral I can't seem to ID.... it seems to be brown with a tiny white dot in the middle... the tentacle stick out like aiptasia but it isn't aiptasia. I'll try and get a picture but I don't have a macro lens.

Thanks for the help!
 
I have a point and shoot camera and I have the hardest time taking photos of small things too. No clue on the IDs but glad to hear things are coming along nicely.
 
Thanks TIm. I will post updates soon as I plan to order my first few coral sometime within the next couple weeks... just have a bit of hair algae left... big difference from the WHOLE tank being smothered in it :)
 
thanks alpine

i am wondering.... what is the aussie acan coral ans is it as dangerous as the palytoxin in some zoos?

adding corals soon :)
 
Alright folks I need your opinion.... going to order a Kole Tang soon and I wanted to know if I should quarantine it or not. I have a quarantine tank in the works but I hear conflicting reports on this particular species of fish for quarantine...

What's the deal?

I also got a peppermint shrimp and now I have no more aiptasia :)
 
I bought me one and put him in my QT and he did not eat in my QT.I saw him eat in the store but soon as I put him in my DT he started eating
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13239181#post13239181 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by psilentchild
I bought me one and put him in my QT and he did not eat in my QT.I saw him eat in the store but soon as I put him in my DT he started eating
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What were you feeding him in QT? I bought select seaweed sheets along with pellet food.
 
from what I've read and learned here on RC and elsewhere (I have no hands on experience but have done quite a bit of research) you should quarantine everything you buy (some say even corals, and motile inverts) prior to placing them in the DT. For fish, it's recommended they should stay quarantined for a month as most diseases will have presented themselves for treatment in this period of time. hopefully this helps as it's advice I've heard frequently :)
 
Yep that's what I've planned. Although some people have argued not to QT mandarines and kole tangs so I want to be sure.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13241713#post13241713 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by psilentchild
I tried seaweed sheets flakes and brine shrimp and neither work in my QT.He eats all three in my DT
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Hmm strange... how big was your QT? That might induce some sort of stress trigger. My QT is 40 gallons.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13241767#post13241767 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by psilentchild
30 gallon but he was eating in the store and there tank was smaller than mine
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Interesting. Perhaps it was the move to a new tank. Do you know how long he was at the store? Either way i hope yours does well! Have you noticed any ich so far?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13239384#post13239384 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chatyak
What were you feeding him in QT? I bought select seaweed sheets along with pellet food.
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I quarantined my Kole for four weeks and had a hard time feeding him in QT. But I was trying to get him to eat pellet, flake, and nori from a clip. As soon as I put seaweed on a rock and put the rock in the tank he ate it up! I of course just tossed the rock out to dry. My kole doesn't eat from a cilp. But he LOVES rods food (the veggie blend). However in a QT tank that could dirty the water quickly.
 
Sorry just meant to say that rods food is a pretty messy food and in a smaller QT tank if you don't have a skimmer or some kind of physical filtration the food could stick around for a bit. My tanks inhabitants seem to love this and I add this to my mysis and cyclopeeze routine.

http://www.rodsfood.com/index.html
 
Well I got two small little perculas today and they are in the 40 gallon QT. Salinity is 1.0235 and I have a sponge filter that is sitting on the bottom shooting bubbles up to the surface (plugged into backup power so in case power goes out it's still going).

I also bought an 800gph powerhead but it was moving the bubbles from the sponge too much in the tank... the whole tank was microbubbles so I switched it with a 400gph and its better.

I also have pvc boxes in there for hiding. No signs of ich at the store and they were well colored and swimming around. Store kept them in QT for a week.

Any tips or suggestions on feeding or what else I should do? I have flake foods and pellet foods. (nori too)

Thanks fellas.
 
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